Film (Festival) Capitol of the World

Even though the LA Film Festival is one of my favorites, our fair city is not known for one of the “important” festivals – Sundance, Cannes, Toronto, Venice, Berlin…after all, what fun is it to party in your hometown?

I spoke with Madeleine Brand on Press Play about why LA doesn’t have a world-famous film festival…to listen click HERE.

But what we may (arguably) lack in “importance” we make up for in diversity. Here’s an (ever-growing) list of fascinating So Cal film fests as of September, 2017.

Note, I can’t vouch for most of the long list below…I’ve only been to a handful! But I’m committed to showing up to a couple of festivals this year that are totally out of my wheel house…any suggestions?